Sentence examples for eased downward from inspiring English sources
"Expect the caps on discretionary spending as laid out in the Budget Control Act of 2011 to remain in force," read the statemenet by S&P, "if these limits are eased, downward pressure on ratings could build". U.S. stocks plummeted on Monday.
But prices started to ease downward as prospects improved for last year's harvests.
Finally, easing the downward slope of the seafloor beneath the ice could slow its retreat.
This is a blow to the battle against inflation, in which the government's main weapon is a crawling peg, allowing the value of the lira to ease gradually downward along a predetermined path.
The most likely result is that a trend that is already well established (either as explicit policy or customary practice) will continue: countries will try to restrict the immigration of unskilled workers, giving preference to workers with skills.This does help, in one way, quite apart from narrowing the rich countries' skills deficit: it eases the downward pressure on wages at the bottom.
As these orders get executed, they ease the downward pressure.
The second option is for safe-asset-issuing governments (the U.S., Germany, Netherlands, etc). to simply issue more debt, easing the downward pressure on central banks' policy rates due to the new regulations and thus avoiding making the policy rates less effective at spurring economic activity.
The higher daily heave is attributed to the relative ease of downward seepage compared to the more energy intensive evaporation process causing settlement (van de Griend and Owe [1994]).
His compatriot had eased far too comfortably away from Hoedt and his downward header bounced beyond the helpless McCarthy.
By the early 90's, with the co-op market in a downward slide, "some buildings that had restrictions on subletting eased up because of those concerns about abandonment," Ms. Frechter of the Long Island realty board said.
The idea behind easing is to put downward pressure on long-term interest rates.
